Usually means: Primary or main; chief amount.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. principal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. principal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. principal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. principal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. principal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Principal, principal: Wordnik
  7. principal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. principal: Wiktionary
  9. principal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. principal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. principal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. principal: Dictionary.com
  13. principal (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. principal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Principal (academia), Principal (architecture), Principal (bond), Principal (commercial law), Principal (computer security), Principal (criminal law), Principal (education), Principal (finance), Principal (music), Principal (school), Principal (university), Principal, The Principal (Melanie Martinez song), The Principal (TV series), The Principal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Principal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. principal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. principal: Rhymezone
  19. principal, principal, principal(e) (-aux): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. principal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. principal: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. principal: Free Dictionary
  23. principal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. principal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. principal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. PRINCIPAL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Principal: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Business (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. principal: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. principal: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  4. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  5. principal: Law.com Dictionary
  6. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  8. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  9. PRINCIPAL: Accounting Glossary
  10. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  11. Principal: bizterms.net
  12. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  13. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  14. Principal: Moneyterms
  15. principal: Finance-Glossary.com
  16. Credit Terms (No longer online)
  17. MonsterMoving Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  18. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  19. Principal: Securities Terminology
  20. principal: Legal dictionary
  21. principal: Financial dictionary
  22. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  23. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  24. Principal: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  25. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)
  26. Principal: Investopedia
  27. MSN Money (No longer online)
  28. Principal: Inflation Glossary
  29. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. principal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. principal: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. principal: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Principal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Principal: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Principal: Construction Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Primary; most important; first level in importance.
adjective:  (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
adjective:  (mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
noun:  (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
noun:  (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
noun:  (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
noun:  (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
noun:  (law) The primary participant in a crime.
noun:  Either party in a duel.
noun:  (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
noun:  (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
noun:  (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
noun:  The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
noun:  One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
noun:  (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
noun:  A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
noun:  (computing) A security principal.
noun:  A main character or lead actor.

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